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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:48 PM Feb 2017

Spicer Makes Up New Islamist Attack

Kellyanne Conway’s “Bowling Green massacre” isn’t the only case of a White House aide pointing to a terror attack that didn’t happen to make the case for President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order limiting travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has repeatedly pointed to Atlanta, along with San Bernardino and Boston, as one of three U.S. cities that have been attacked by Islamist terrorists to argue that the Trump administration needed to act quickly to prevent another attack in the future.

While the Boston bombing and shootings in San Bernadino were both carried out by Islamist terrorists, neither involved foreign nationals from the seven countries in Trump’s executive order. There has never been an Islamist terror attack in Atlanta.

In a Jan. 29 appearance on ABC’s This Week, Spicer explained to Martha Raddatz that the White House needed to implement its executive order quickly, before another terror attack could take place. “What do we say to the family that loses somebody over a terroristic (sic), to whether it’s Atlanta or San Bernardino or the Boston bomber?”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/spicer-makes-up-new-islamist-attack/ar-AAmIP8G?li=BBnbcA1

More Trump world alternative facts

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Spicer Makes Up New Islamist Attack (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2017 OP
Republicans need to stop lying to the American people Achilleaze Feb 2017 #1
Eric Rudolph HopeAgain Feb 2017 #2
RW conservative bombing... bettyellen Feb 2017 #3
That's all I could think of ... another right wing attack :-( etherealtruth Feb 2017 #7
Spicy is lying about Atlanta gademocrat7 Feb 2017 #4
Yes, and a fundamentalist Christian anti-choice terrorist at that. MineralMan Feb 2017 #6
The reality is that most of the terrorist attacks in the US MineralMan Feb 2017 #5
Their justification holds no merit. At all. nt. NCTraveler Feb 2017 #8

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. Republicans need to stop lying to the American people
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:50 PM
Feb 2017

It's so freaking anti-American and anti-Bible to tell lies all the time. Republicans and their Russian bedmates should be ashamed of themselves.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
2. Eric Rudolph
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:54 PM
Feb 2017

The Atlanta Centennial Park bombing, which happened 20 years ago during the Summer Olympics, was committed by a white anti-abortion radical named Eric Rudolph. It killed one and injured over 100 people. (For the sake of our younger members).

What'ya say let's put a travel ban on all the anti-abortionist? Ohh wait..most of them are already in the U.S.

gademocrat7

(10,669 posts)
4. Spicy is lying about Atlanta
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:00 PM
Feb 2017

The Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta was committed by a domestic terroist, Eric Rudolph. This was not an Islamist attack.

MineralMan

(146,331 posts)
6. Yes, and a fundamentalist Christian anti-choice terrorist at that.
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:12 PM
Feb 2017

Those are the folks that seem to do most of these things.

MineralMan

(146,331 posts)
5. The reality is that most of the terrorist attacks in the US
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:12 PM
Feb 2017

have been homegrown, and a sizable majority of them have been perpetrated by right-wing fundamentalist Christians. While there have been some Islam-related attacks, they are a small minority of the mass shootings, bombings, etc.

We are not really in danger from refugees fleeing Islamic nations. On the contrary. Most of those fleeing are fleeing the extremists and have no interest in terrorism. They've been thoroughly vetted all along. It takes as long as years to get permission to come here. The vetting is already extreme.

Trump and Spicer are full of crap.

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